[HN Gopher] Publishing my first game using PICO-8 ___________________________________________________________________ Publishing my first game using PICO-8 Author : nalgeon Score : 82 points Date : 2023-09-29 13:10 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (boyter.org) (TXT) w3m dump (boyter.org) | jcmontx wrote: | I played like 12 levels! Super fun. I can beat almost every | wizard using lightning + acid combo | frenchie14 wrote: | PICO-8 is really fun! I've released two games with it and I'm | working on my third. For the third one I'm trying to push the | edge of what the limitations permit, which adds quite a bit of | complexity to an otherwise straightforward engine. You are only | allowed a certain amount of tokens (~2k lines of code), | characters, and compressed cart space. Maximizing the use of | these limits requires a lot of tricks! | montroser wrote: | PICO-8 is a wonderful little thing. Kind of like a modern day | Commodore 64 with a brilliantly intuitive IDE. My fourth grader | has spent many a weekend tinkering with sound effects and sprites | and animations and all the like. The whole space is nicely | constrained (128x128px 4-bit color) while still being expressive | enough to capture the imagination... | MattPalmer1086 wrote: | Yep. although my son isn't really into coding, PICO-8 was the | only thing we tried where we actually made a mostly functional | platform game. | | He got really into defining the sprites, levels and sounds, and | that took him into coding movement and enemies and different | bullets for the character. | cableshaft wrote: | Nice! | | One of these weekends I need to just sit down and finish my | Pico-8 game. The gameplay is working fully (minus a couple nice | to haves I wanted to add), I was just stuck on menu and logo | design and sound/music when I drifted off. | | It's a pretty nice system and fun to play with. I recommend it. | two_handfuls wrote: | Nice game! | felideon wrote: | Very nice! Would love to find time to build a PICO-8 game some | day. I'm a bit confused as to whether it took the OP 3 years or | about a week to build the game, though: | | > September 18th 20203 - I think im actually going to commit... | MattPalmer1086 wrote: | Its actually really easy to get into. I managed to make an | asteroids like game in only a few hours. | codezero wrote: | According to Twitter it was a week. | https://x.com/boyter/status/1704999509183668656?s=46 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-10-01 23:00 UTC)